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i have just reciently installed Gentoo linux. i am using grub. It will only load the gentoo part at the boot screen. It says that the partion has a error with the chainloader +1. It will refuse to enter Xp. Help. Die Die Die Windows

Verify that the partition you are trying to chainload from really is the correct one.

So, if the Windows XP chainload section in grub.conf looks like this:

Code:

title=Windows XP
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1

The partition specified as hosting Windows XP is (hd0,5), or in Linux techspeak /dev/hda6. hd0 is hda and the partition number in Grub techspeak is one less than in Linux because it starts with 0 instead of 1. So (hd0,0) is the first partition on the first IDE disk - or /dev/hda1. Verify that you have the correct partition specified. You can run fdisk -l /dev/hda to get a list of what partitions you have on your disk.